National Issues
No to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
12 January 2017
PCP brought a Resolution Project to Parliament for the rejection of the Free Commerce and Services agreements, namely the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union and Canada.
Sale of a Special Issue of «Avante!»
12 January 2017
PCP has organised the sale of the special issue of Avante! published on 12 January in workplaces and among communities. In an unprecedented initiative, the Party distributed the Political Resolution adopted by PCP's XX Congress together with the sale of «Avante!» copies.
The passing away of Mario Soares and the attempt to rewrite history
7 January 2017
On the campaign that seeks to rewrite the recent history of Portugal, namely the April Revolution course, around the passing away of Mário Soares, former Secretary General of the Socialist Party, Prime Minister and President of the Republic, we published the note from the PCP and a text from the «Avante!».
Statement by the PCP Central Committee - Meeting of 17th December 2016
17 December 2016
The Central Committee, meeting on December 17, 2016, analysed the XX Congress of the Portuguese Communist Party, adopted a resolution on the organisation of leadership work and defined a set of lines of work and tasks resulting from the guidelines adopted in the Congress. The Central Committee examined the latest developments of the international and national political situation.
Political Resolution of the XXth Congress of the PCP (Excerpts)
4 December 2016
Unanimously approved by the XX Congress
Closing speech of the XX Congress
4 December 2016
On the verge of the closing of the XX Congress, we can say that we have successfully achieved the objectives we set ourselves.
The Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (CPR), resistance and struggle for an alternative
4 December 2016
Comrades
Subjected to a policy and to options subordinated to the interests of the monopoly capital and the European capitalist integration, Portugal has been dragged, over the last decades, by successive governments of the PS, PSD and CDS, into economic decline, social regression and dependency accompanied, on the political level, by the impoverishment of the democratic regime where the conflict with the Constitution of the Republic is the most visible element.
The national sovereignty, the movement for its defence and freeing the country for the submission to the Euro
4 December 2016
Comrades,
It is almost 15 years since the introduction of Euro bills and coins in our country. The PCP was the only voice that warned and fought the foreseeable impacts of the adhesion to the Single European Currency. The PCP did not follow the siren chants that heralded the end of crises, the shield of speculation with public debt, the convergence with the salary levels of the major powers, the growth and development of the country.
Nothing of what was sold to the Portuguese people came to be. Nothing of what was promised to the Portuguese people was accomplished.